Nikola Tesla quotes from Sanctuary

John Druitt

If any harm comes to her, accidental or otherwise...

Nikola Tesla

I have no reason to do her any harm. But you? I'm finding more reasons by the minute.

Helen Magnus

Honestly! I'm surrounded by adolescents!

Nikola Tesla

Your father really didn't like me, did he?

Helen Magnus

You're an acquired taste.

Nikola Tesla

You felt genuine concern for me. Admit it.

Helen Magnus

Nonsense.

Nikola Tesla

Oh. You still like me, it's so obvious.

Helen Magnus

You tried to kill me.

Nikola Tesla

Yeah, but, you know, we all hurt the ones we love.

Helen Magnus

Not much of a test...

Nikola Tesla

You're a total daddy's girl.

Nikola Tesla

Young love is so...heartbreaking to observe, as a scientist. So passionate, so innocent, and yet, so utterly doomed.

Will Zimmerman

Huh. So I'm guessing you've never been in love, then.

Nikola Tesla

Countless times, my friend. See, the difference is I recognize the emotion for what it is: An irrational, self-destructive impulse which is disguised as joy.

Nikola Tesla

Your shaggy friend is still refusing treatment and frankly, I’m insulted.

Will Zimmerman

Oh right, yeah, because I forgot - this is all about you.

Nikola Tesla

I have spent weeks creating a working treatment for the Lazarus virus, I spent weeks more traveling the earth disseminating it to the affected abnormals, effectively stemming an outbreak, and in the end the creep in the room with the hair doesn’t want to take his medicine! It’s personal and we both know it is.

John Druitt

If you're going to help, do try to remain sober.

Nikola Tesla

Half-vampire! Alcohol doesn't affect me. Though since you showed up, God I wish it did.

Helen Magnus

Explains why my wine cellar is now empty.

Nikola Tesla

Consider it payment for averting a global crisis.

Helen Magnus

Not a single genetic defect or latent abnormality in her DNA.

Nikola Tesla

Makes me sleepy just looking at it.

Helen Magnus

Nikola, did I ever tell you why my father founded the Sanctuary network all those decades ago?

Nikola Tesla

Because he was a crappy doctor?

Nikola Tesla

You'd think with all the resources available to her, she'd have a more updated facility. This place is as backward as Oxford before the war. The first war.

Henry Foss

Yeah, well, I think Dr. Magnus likes to keep the old stuff around for old times' sake. She trusts it more than the high-tech stuff I try to push on her.

Nikola Tesla

How to modulate the energy spectrum so that it has the desired benign effect...?

Henry Foss

While still taking her out.

Nikola Tesla

The reason I'm asking is because I don't know the answer. And I'm me.

John Druitt

Where's your courage, dear boy? We'll be fine.

Nikola Tesla

I'm not British. All that tally-ho crap doesn't work on me.

Nikola Tesla

Wealthy parents ship their drug-addled teenagers to me. They arrive, their poor little bodies wracked by the best designer drugs trust funds can buy - it breaks your heart. But then, after one week of treatment, I send them home to mater and pater completely cured of all addictions.

Will Zimmerman

Woah woah woah, one week? That's impossible.

Nikola Tesla

Which part of "I am a genius" aren't you getting?

You know I was hoping you'd be a bit more cooperative.

Nikola Tesla

Yeah, well, life's a bitch and then you don't die.

Nikola Tesla

Well, well, well, the appetizers have arrived.

Helen Magnus

Well this is the last time I come to your rescue!